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Festival Internacional de Santander Commits to Present One Staged Opera

The Festival Internacional de Santander has announced that it will be collaborating with the Fundación Albéniz to return opera to the festival. The festival plans to have a staged opera in 2026 for its 75th anniversary. The proposal already has the support of the local governments of Santander and Cantabria. According to the festival, the […]

CAST CHANGE IN ‘LA TRAVIATA’ AT WIENER STAATSOPER

As he himself has already announced on social media, Ludovic Tézier is unfortunately forced to cancel his appearances in the first two performances (6 and 9 September 2024) of the series of La traviata with Lisette Oropesa in the title role and Juan Diego Flórez as Alfredo Germont at the beginning of the season due […]

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR INTERNATIONAL OPERA AWARDS 2024

The International Opera Awards announces the shortlist for this year’s Awards, set to take place at the Bayerische Staatsoper’s Prinzregententheater in Munich on Wednesday 2 October. The Awards honour exceptional operatic talent from across the globe, celebrating the diverse and collaborative nature of this cherished art form and will be live streamed free on OperaVision. Finalists for this year’s […]

Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński opens the Grand Théâtre recital season

We left him performing an excerpt from Les Indes galantes in the rain at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, with his dual artistic credentials as both the beloved countertenor of Generation Z and an accomplished breakdancer. The Polish singer Jakub Józef Orliński is multiplying his artistic collaborations with constant success, as evidenced […]

Die Wiener Staatsoper im September

KICK-OFF TO THE 2024/2025 SEASON Rehearsals for the new 2024/2025 season are already in full swing at Haus am Ring. In addition to the first premiere of the season, Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo on 26 September, the season will kick off with numerous highlights from the opera and ballet repertoire, which will bring the house […]

60th INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION VOCI VERDIANE CITTÀ DI BUSSETO

Applications for the 60th International Competition Voci Verdiane Città di Busseto are officially open from May 27 to June 28, 2024. The competition is launched by the Municipality of Busseto, in honor and memory of the famous tenor Carlo Bergonzi on the centenary of his birth, organized with the patronage of the Ministry of Tourism, […]

Famed Ballet Dancer Julio Bocca Named New Director of Teatro Colón

Following the dismissal of Jorge Telerman as the director of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Julio Bocca has been named as his successor. Bocca, a former ballet dancer, became part of the Compañía de Ballet de Cámara del Teatro Colón, before embarking on an major international career, including a stint with the American Ballet Theater as a […]

OPERA America Unveils New Leadership

OPERA America has announced some major leadership changes. First up, the organization revealed that Lee Anne Myslewski will be its new board chair. Myslewski, the vice president for opera and classical programming for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, has served as Vice chair of the Board of Directors since 2022. She takes […]

National Symphony Orchestra Presents Strauss Concerts

The National Symphony Orchestra is set to open its 2024–2025 season with a variety of concerts featuring classics, new works, and collaborations. In a statement, Music Director Gianandrea Noseda, The Roger Sant and Congresswoman Doris Matsui Chair said, “It is a joy for me to be returning to Washington, D.C., to open my eighth season […]

Yannick Nézet-Séguin signs contract extension through 2029–30 season

The Metropolitan Opera tannounced the contract extension of its Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, through the 2029–30 season. Only the third Music Director in the company’s history, Nézet-Séguin began his tenure in the 2018–19 season. This six-year extension acknowledges the deepening partnership between Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra and Chorus, as well as his committed […]

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Alice Lechner

Alice Lechner comes from a music-loving family. Her first encounter with the opera universe was at the tender age of six. The grandeur of the stage productions and costumes, the backstage chatter, and last, but definitely not least, the music left her in awe, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The overall feeling that opera awakens in anyone who gets a glimpse into this part of artistic eternity, that each and every day passes the test of time, was what drew her to stay and be a part of this world. The Opera House of Brașov became her second home, and the people who worked there were her second family.

Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.

Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

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Oana Zamfir

Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.

She studied violin for 12 years at the “Stefan Luchian” High School of Art in Botosani, later focusing on the theoretical aspects of music. In 2019 she completed her bachelor studies in Musicology as a student of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. Her research during 2018-2019 brought to the forefront elements of the archaic ritual within works of composers who activated during the communist period, giving her the opportunity to start a research internship at the “Carl von Ossietzky” University in Germany. In this context, she recorded conversations with members of the Sophie Drinker Institute in Bremen, and had access to documents directly from the Myriam Marbé archive.

Since 2019 she has been a teacher of Music Education and Theoretical Music Studies, making full use of interactive methods in the musical training of students and working, at the same time, with the children’s choir founded in the first year of her activity.

Her interests include pursuing a degree in interior design in 2020.

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Alexandru Suciu

Alexandru Suciu inherited his passion for art growing up in a family of several generations of musicians. He began his musical studies at the “Augustin Bena” School of Music in Cluj, where he studied piano and guitar. Even though his main study direction was philological, his passion for music prevailed. He began his academical journey at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, studying Comparative literature and English. He continued by studying Opera Singing at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy. He also graduated the Musical Education section, followed by Artistic Directing at the Musical Performing Arts department.

His multidisciplinary education opened the doors towards research, which is seen both through his participation in national and international conferences and symposia, such as the Salzburg Easter School PhD-forum, organized by the Salzburg Universität or the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars, organized by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, as well as the collaboration with Opera Charm Magazine.

During his student years, he won several prizes, including the Grand Prize at the “Paul Constantinescu” National Musical Interpretation Competition, the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union Prize at the same competition, the First Prize and the Schubert Prize at the “Ada Ulubeanu” Competition.

He further developed his artistic skills by specializing in courses and masterclasses held by personalities such as Vittorio Terranova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marian Pop, Ines Salazar, Riccardo Zanellato, Paolo Bosisio, Valentina Farcaș and Manuel Lange in contexts such as the Internationale Sommerakademie für Operngesang Deutschlandsberg, Corso Internazionale di Canto Lirico I.M.C. Licata or the Europäische Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Montepulciano. Besides his activity on-stage, he currently teaches Opera Singing Didactics, and Pedagogical Practice within the Department for Teacher Education and Training at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy.

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Cristina Fieraru

Cristina is a 24 year-old Romanian soprano & a student at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she pursues the MA program in Vocal Performance.

She made her debut in Pamina from “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at only 19 years old at the Bucharest National Opera House, as a member of the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio. Over the years she made her debut in roles such as Contessa d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì & Musetta (La Bohème), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) in her university’s opera productions.
Her passion and experience extends in the field of choral music, too.

She has been part of our dream team since the fall of 2021. For a good period of time she took care of OPERA Charm’s social media and took you on the monthly journey through the history of opera through our Legends rubric – and a few times through the Theaters around the World rubric.

Her little soul rubric – from 2021 to present – is definitely the Conductors of the Future, where, every month, she gives you the chance to meet a young star of the world of conducting and, of course, to find out what’s the most charming feature of opera in these artists’ views.

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BIANCA L. NICA

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